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Sunday, December 31, 2017

... the finance sector almost a decade ago continue to weigh down on the European banking system”. Worryingly, Mr Focas says that there is now considerable concern among politicians and financiers that a new banking meltdown could be triggered across the Eurozone in 2018. GREEK anger GETTY.

The eight Turkish soldiers fled to GREECE following Turkey's botched coup in July 2016. Seven of them applied for asylum and were rejected, but have been kept in preventive custody. Angered by a decision to grant asylum to the eighth soldier by the Greek asylum service committee, a panel of judges ...

GREECE'S government has filed a request to cancel the granting of asylum to one of eight Turkish servicemen who fled after the botched July 15, 2016, coup. Seven of them applied for asylum and were rejected but were kept in preventive custody. Hours earlier, a Greek administrative committee ruled in ...

According to most political observers, 2018 will be a crucial year for GREECE. It will be the eighth that the country will be fighting with a massive fiscal crisis, struggling to meet the demands of three bail-out programs agreed with the EU and IMF. However, in the summer of 2018, GREECE is expected to have ...

The Greek government was both defiant and understanding after Turkey slammed the release of a suspect involved in the deadly coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Süleyman Özkaynakçı, one of the eight pro-coup troops who fled to GREECE by hijacking a military helicopter, was released Saturday after he ...

On her GREEK heritage, she said, "My mother was born in Constantinople and fled in 1922 with the massacres. My father was born in the Southern Peloponnese in a small town near Ancient Olympia. You can describe my mother as a political, religious refugee and my father as an economic refugee.

Noureldin and his family are still waiting to hear about housing possibilities outside the Mosney direct provision centre where they have been staying since they arrived from GREECE last December. Noureldin has taken an English course but is reluctant to start secondary school until the family knows ...

ATHENS — GREECE dismissed Turkish anger on Sunday over its decision to grant asylum to a soldier who Ankara accuses of involvement in the abortive coup ... The eight soldiers had flown by helicopter to GREECE in the early hours of July 16, 2016, as the attempted coup against Erdogan crumbled.

Global X MSCI GREECE ETF logo Global X MSCI GREECE ETF (NYSEARCA:GREK) saw a large growth in short interest during the month of November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 2,260,524 shares, a growth of 63.4% from the November 15th total of 1,383,056 shares. Based on ...

Aside from worries about funding, UCF and other colleges nationwide have grappled with how to police GREEK life over the past year. Fraternities and sororities have been roiled with controversy, with Florida State University becoming at least the third school nationally in 2017 to suspend all GREEK life ...

Happy New Year 2018 – Love, Wealth, Health. And May All Your Wishes Come True! Ευτυχισμένος Ο Καινούργιος Χρόνος! Χρόνια Πολλά! The post Happy New Year 2018 to all KTG Readers! appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

2018 will be “a watershed year” for GREECE, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Sunday in his end-of-year address to the nation, while heralding the end of the country's bailout program. “We are finally leaving behind the era of supervision, of tough measures and humiliation. And this is a very good ...

GREECE'S government finds itself in a difficult diplomatic spot after political asylum was granted for one of the eight Turkish military officers who fled to GREECE after the failed coup attempt in July 2016. Ankara responded angrily to the decision, calling it “political” and warning it could have “negative ...

The last time we weighed in on the fallout from the tragic death of FSU fraternity pledge Andrew Coffey, we took a measured approach, pointing out the pros and cons of Greek life. And it’s still true that the actions of the few shouldn’t necessarily ...

GREECE is located in a seismically active zone, which lies in a boundary area between three tectonic plates: Eurasian, African and Aegean ones. Earthquakes in the region are caused by the Aegean Sea Plate's movement southwestward and the African Plate's subduction beneath the Aegean Sea Plate.

A 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck Athens and central GREECE early on Sunday, witnesses said, according to Reuters. The tremblor was recorded west of Athens in the Corinthian Gulf at an assessed depth of five kilometers, the National Observatory of Athens said. The US Geological Survey (USGS) ...

“By granting asylum to one of eight coup plotters involved in the July 15 coup, GREECE has once again showed that it is a country that protects and embraces coup plotters with this decision,” Turkey's Foreign Ministry said in the statement. The asylum board rejected the applications by the other seven ...

GREEK police say they have found the body of a man, believed to be a refugee, in a river that flows along the country's northeastern border with Turkey and which is on a route used by migrants. The unidentified body was found late Thursday in the icy Evros River with police announcing the discovery on ...

Suspected coup plotters are not welcome in Greece, a senior official of the SYRIZA-led administration said Sunday following criticism of the government for filing a request for the cancellation of the asylum granted to a Turkish soldier. “We respect the international treaties, we protect rights, but that does ...

GREEK Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, left, and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu during a press conference in Ankara. (File photo/Reuters) ... Turkey said on Saturday the decision by a GREEK asylum board undermined relations between the two countries. The soldier was one of eight who fled ...

A looming resumption of auctions of foreclosed properties in the country along with pending sales of blocs of non-performing loans (NPLs) to distress funds within the first six months of the year are two developments that are widely expected as commencing a vigorous campaign by GREEK banks to ...

All over Greece, tables over the Christmas and New Year days are set with traditional food savory and sweet, mostly based on recipes going from generation to generation. There are regional preferences depending on local products and customs that one enjoys across the whole country. One of them is Vasilopita, the King’s Cake, with a … The post Greece’s New Year tradition: Vasilopita and the secret of the Golden Coin appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

A dream wedding over the festive days took place on the island of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea. It was Santa Claus himself who brought the bride to the Church, on his Greek sleight and a kind of bizarre huge reindeer. kefaloniapress.gr Santa had a red cape to keep the bride warm as he sleight … The post Kefalonia: Santa and Reindeer bring the Bride to the Church appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

26-year-old Austrian citizen Sebastian Schedlbauer has been missing since December 23rd 2017. He went missing in Kallithea suburb of South Athens. A Silver Alert announcement reports that on the day Sebastian Schedlbauer went missing was wearing a multi-color cap, a dark color sports pants, white pullover, dark jacket and black shoes. He is 1.90 m … The post Silver Alert: 26-year-old Austrian man missing in Athens appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

Greece's Foreign Ministry on Sunday reacted to Ankara's warning that a decision to grant asylum to a Turkish soldier by the GREEK asylum service committee would have negative impact on bilateral relations. “Democracies neither threaten nor can be threatened. To the contrary, they work responsibly ...

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is spending the New Year's holiday in the northern GREEK city of ... Zaev wished all GREEK citizens a happy new year and said it “was a great pleasure for me to have dinner with the mayor of Thessaloniki and his cabinet.”

For many GREEKS, the new year will not go well if they don't play cards on New Year's Eve. And if they do play cards and lose, then the new year will be full of bad luck. But if they win, they will be happy as can be. The custom is observed so seriously by some, to the point they would allow their kids to play ...

ATHENS – Except for the rich, politicians, tax cheats and the privileged, Greece’s long economic crisis has taken such a hard toll that 50 percent […] The post Surveys Shows One in Two Greeks Can’t Make Ends Meet appeared first on The National Herald.

Weird Wave Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose movies aren’t for the faint-hearted, said he couldn’t have made his acclaimed works if he’d stayed in […] The post Director Lanthimos Says He Had to Leave Greece to Make Movies appeared first on The National Herald.

With foreign companies and investors snapping up foreclosed homes and properties cheap during crushing economic crisis, Greek hotels, especially the 5-star variety, are at the […] The post Foreign Investors Want, Can’t Get, Greek 5-Star Hotels appeared first on The National Herald.

Democracies neither threaten nor can be threatened. To the contrary, they work responsibly and methodically to promote understanding and consolidate stability and good neighbourly relations in their region. Greece will continue on this course responsibly. We hope our neighbours opt for the same course of action. Rather than being a weakness, our faith in democratic principles and methods is a strength.

A magnitude 5 earthquake struck about 50km NE of Athens at 6:02 am local time according to the US Geological Survey. Its epicentre was located on the coast of the Corinth Gulf at a 10km depth. The quake was felt in Athens and in many areas in central GREECE. No damages or injuries have been ...

ATHENS, Dec 31 (Reuters) - GREECE dismissed Turkish anger on Sunday over its decision to grant asylum to a soldier who Ankara accuses of involvement in the abortive coup against President Tayyip Erdogan in July 2016. Turkey said on Saturday the decision by a Greek asylum board undermined ...

After the Greek Asylum Committee granted asylum to a Turkish officer accused of being part of the coup attempt of July 2016, it was inevitable that Turkey would respond in its usual aggressive communique, with the Greek government deciding to appeal the ...

The Greek government has filed a petition to annul the decision to grant political asylum to one of the 8 Turkish soldiers who fled with a helicopter to Greece one day after the failed coup on 15. July 2016. “Following the standing position in relation to the 8 Turkish soldiers, as has been repeatedly and … The post Greek Gov’t files petition to annul asylum for Turkish officer, Ankara furious appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

An earthquake with a magnitude 4.6 on Richter scale rattled Athens and central Greece early Sunday morning, witnesses said, with no immediate reports of damage. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the coast of Dombraina, 86 km west of Athens at 6.02 am (0402 GMT) and 33 km north-west of Corinth in the Corinthian … The post 4.6R earthquake strikes strikes Central Greece on New Year’s Eve appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

There's no doubt that such a mystic day comes together with a unique dinner, probably one of the most symbolic of the year. But not everything revolves around food. Many households set an extra empty place at the festive table; a symbolic ritual closely related to the legendary GREEK hospitality, there ...

One of the (vague) election pledges of Alexis Tsipras was that his administration would restore the lost dignity of GREEKS. That was also one of his slogans when he was negotiating with creditors before he brought back more of the austerity he was supposedly fighting against. But reality is more cruel ...

Greece is facing a measles epidemic this year with the number of reported cases tripling within two months, according to the National Centre for the Control and Prevention of Diseases (Keelpno). In late October, the first casualty of the disease outbreak ...

The Greek government said on Saturday that it had filed a request for the cancelation of the asylum granted to a Turkish soldier accused of involvement in last year’s coup attempt. Greece’s administrative court of appeal will now look into the case.

Perhaps this is why very few publicly say that GREECE caused Cyprus' greatest misfortune with its indefensible invasion (during which people were buried alive, according to primary sources) on July 15, 1974. The politically correct way of referring to these events is as a junta coup is extremely misleading ...

He had gone hunting when the deadly flash flood struck Wednesday. Two people are still missing. The government has declared an emergency in areas in central and northern GREECE hit by heavy rains last week. There were no casualties in those areas. More heavy rain fell Sunday across GREECE and ...

… other Turkish military officers to Greece a day after last year … Greek judicial source said on Saturday. The co-pilot landed in the Greek … weeks. The decision follows a Greek Supreme Court ruling in January …

Largely unreported events (in the GREEK media) took place in Moscow in early December when Patriarch Kirill, head of the The Russian Orthodox Church hosted 380 Orthodox bishops from Russia and throughout the world, including representatives from the Slavic countries and the Near East, and ...